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In the past weeks I did not by any stretch spend as much time on building my DJ skills as I wanted. However I did work through the sample chapter of the Traktor Pro Bible, which I am anxiously awaiting. I also finally ordered a VCI-100. Since the plain SE isn't available, I went with the …

I guess in my last post I also left out a common question: "So what is your DJ name?" I sort of already have one as my home team from Berlin is called the DJ Dahlem. Everybody on the team eventually gets a "DJ" + X name. In my case I got "DJ Lucky Luke" because …

Whenever I tell people that I am getting into DJing, they usually ask me for one of two things: "Send me one of your mixes" or "let me know when your next gig is". Plus I keep seeing posts about where people talk about the difference between "loop" and "beatjump" oriented DJs. I guess my current …

I am noticing a sharp increase in CD buying since I decided DJing is going to be my next big hobby. Just last week I picked up the new Prodigy "Invaders Must Die" (some good songs, but not like the Jilted Generation and friends), Crystal Method "Drive" (wow!!), Trentemoeller "The Last Resort" (can't go wrong with …

Now that I figured it out it seems quite obvious, but for a couple of hours I was driving my head against the wall to figure out how to do cueing in Traktor Pro. The crux of the problem was that it had something to do with the "Cue" button. To a novice not such a …